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  1. Re:Douchebags! on Microsoft To Add Ads To Smart Search · · Score: 0

    What, this is surprising?

    Even before XBone's DRM clusterfuck, they'd guaranteed I wouldn't buy their next-gen crapbox the moment they put ads on my Xbox dashboard...

  2. Re:Safari ? on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 1

    I guess I could use Midori then. Seems to be the only PC (non-mobile) browser still using it, at least according to wikipedia.

    Thanks.

  3. Re:Some things should not be.. on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 2

    When you replace the neurons one at a time with electronic substitutes (say, as an Alzheimer's treatment), at what point is Grandma no longer Grandma?

    When she's Theseus?

  4. Re:Safari ? on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 1

    Do any of the existing windows or linux browsers still use the same rendering engine? I'm not buying a mac just to test websites, and never had any luck with Hackintosh VMs.

  5. Re:Ctrl-Shift-N and "Open Image In New Tab" on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 1

    Not that I'm a fan of any of the current offerings, but for the sake of information: Firefox has private browsing and image-in-new-tab ability (middle-click on "view image")

  6. Re:Adblock plus on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 1

    Still no dice on embedded scripting though, right?

  7. Re:In Windows 8 64 Bit As Defined by Tom's Hardwar on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 1

    How long ago was that change? I'm wondering if that might not be the cause of the clunkiness I've been seeing for a little while.

  8. Re:Start Button in 8.1 is useless. on Microsoft Reacts To Feedback But Did They Get Windows 8.1 Right? · · Score: 1

    I know the G11 does.

    On the other hand, the G11 isn't a Model M, so it's been shoved into the closet since I got my clicky not-so-little buddy.

    Productivity and home defense, all in one.

  9. Re:Weekly/Monthly Salary on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    Word to the wise, real estate agents need to be carefully monitored, and you need to make sure you are getting all your paperwork and READING all your paperwork

    Word to the wiser: if said paperwork includes an HOA, keep walking. For every legitimate repair and upkeep issue that they can enforce, there's at least two nitpicks they'll bring to bear on you that you'd never have imagined, and there's bound to be another house out there which won't subject your painting scheme and holiday decorations to the sensibilities of a panel of self-styled suburban martinets.

  10. Re:Start Button in 8.1 is useless. on Microsoft Reacts To Feedback But Did They Get Windows 8.1 Right? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In my experience, the Windows key's most suitable task seems to be to get accidentally bumped by the side of my hand and minimizing my games at the worst possible moment...

  11. Re:Start Button in 8.1 is useless. on Microsoft Reacts To Feedback But Did They Get Windows 8.1 Right? · · Score: 2

    Actually, it's not universally a joke. I'm typing this on a Model M, ca 1991, and yeah, I'll give up Windows before I give up this keyboard.

  12. Re:Now there's a petition on whitehouse.gov... on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 1

    And you missed mine. To believe what they're doing now is to "protect the country" is to be credulousness enough to wait for the Tooth Fairy to save us from the scary bad men.

  13. Re:Now there's a petition on whitehouse.gov... on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 2

    Whereas the current program, while arguably flawed and misguided, is an attempt to protect the country

    And you called the poster you were responding to an "idiot?" Who's going to protect it from its protectors?

  14. Re:What now? on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. The law says you have to be at least 17 to get your full license. It doesn't say you have to do so before your 18th birthday.

  15. Re:What now? on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    Two different people. One is the driver, the other is the "observer" who has to be in the car when the driver only has a permit.

  16. Re:Expectations lowered by all the crap out there on Ouya Android Game Console Launches, Quickly Sells Out · · Score: 1

    In my case, pretty much. I've been on the lookout for the True Portable Emulation Device (TM) for years now. First, they were Linux based (GP2X, Dingoo), then Android (JXD, etc...). Never cut it. The Pandora (later changed to be called OpenPandora) supposedly was better, but they want more for that than MS does for the XBone, so I won't be taking that particular risk.

    At this point, I don't expect the Ouya to fare any better, though that may be my own cynicism after being burned for a decade.

  17. Re:why replace once you have the screwdriver? on iFixit Giving Away 1,776 "iPhone Liberation Kits" · · Score: 2

    I don't think so, Tim.

  18. Re:Shelf life on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    The rounded corners...

    So the real reason Hostess went bankrupt was because of an Apple lawsuit, huh?

  19. Re:One of these things is not like the other on Sony, Microsoft Squabble Over Console Features, But the Real Opponent Is Apple · · Score: 1

    And that's irrelevant if they're not the same markets, which was GPs assertion. You seem to have missed that.

  20. Re:A conspiracy... on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 1

    "Not exact" is a rather generous abbreviation of "adds up to 108% covering only two options."

  21. Re:Bring your own device on 21 Financial Sites Found To Store Sensitive Data In Browser Disk Cache · · Score: 1

    Yes! Let them eat cake!

  22. Re:Hire professional people, get professional resu on Why Your Sysadmin Hates You · · Score: 3, Funny

    That does make me wonder if he's not the sort of authoritarian human tornado who thinks the sysadmin is being "unprofessional" and "insubordinate" when he won't roll back one of those Java security updates that broke the boss' MineCraft game.

  23. Re:Whoosh on Microsoft Kills Xbox One Phone-Home DRM · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not impossible that this is the case, but I can't help thinking it might have been better for them to pull back the sheet at E3 instead of doing Sony's job for them.

    That said, fuck 'em. Still ain't buying any of them.

  24. Re: So... on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    No, because someone already has it. Duh. ;)

  25. Re:Make it optional on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you follow Fed guidelines in the US, it already is. "Indeterminate" and "Declined to Respond" are both required to be supported in any EHR software in order to meet "Meaningful Use" requirements.